The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-29

will draw you up a promise, fresh and cool,
out Of the Well II am the Ecsu:rect on and
the life; lie that be.ieTcth in ne, though he
were dead, yet Shall lie live" What is vour
trouble? You say i is the inErn ties Of cd
age. / Will draw you a promise: Down 10
CD age am with thee, b IloGly hairs VIII
carry thee.' What is your trouble? 90. -
YOU say, az haze widowed soul. and my
children cry for bread" ! bring up this pFon-
Use: "lea:e tiiy fathcrlcss ciiildTen-i VIII
preserve them alive and let thy widows trust
IN me-" ] break through The armed ranks Of
your sorrows today, and bring to yonr parched
lips "a drink Of the water OF the well OF Beth
Iehem, which is by the cato"
Again, the gospel well is at the gate of
heaven. have not heard yet one single in
telligcnt account Of the future world from
anybody who does not believe in the Bible.
They throw such fog about the subject that
do not want to 60 to the skeptics heaven, to
the tranScendentalist's heaven, to the worldly
philosophers heaven. ] would not exchange
the poorest room in your house for the finest
heaven that Huxley, OF Stuart Mill, or Oar
win ever dreamed Of Their heaven has no
Christ in it and n heaven without Christ,
though you could sweep the whole universe
into it, would be a hell, Oh they tell us
there are no songs there there are 10 corona
tons in heaven-that is all imagination They
tell us we VIII do there about what we do
here, only on a larger scale-goometrize with
clearer intellect, and, with alpenstock,
in an eternal vacation. Rather than that, L
turn 20 my Bible, and find Johns picture of
that good land-tliat heaven which was your
lullaby in infancy-that heaven which our
children in the Sabbath-school will sing about
this afternoon ;.that heaven which has well at
the gate"
After you have been on C long journey, and
You come in, all bedusted and tired, to your
home, the first thing you want is a refreshing
ablution and am glad to know that after
fhrpnph nil lori pf
world-tEe hard, dusty pilgrimage
we viii find well at the gate. In that one
wash away will go our sins and sorrows. / do
not care whether cherub or seraph, or my own
departed friends in that blessed land place to
my lips the cup, the touch of that cup will be
Life, will be heaven! | was reading Of how
the ancients sought for the fountain Of per-
petual youth. They thought il they could
only find and drink Of that well, the old
would become young again, the sick would be
cured, and everybody would have eternal jul
venescence. OF course, they could not find it,
Eurekal i have found it--"tho water of the
well Of Bethlehem, which is by the gate"
think we had better made bargain with
those who leave us, going out OF this world
from time TO time, as to where we will meet
them. Travellers parting appoint asplace of
meeting. They say: eve will meet at Rome,
or we will meet at Stockholm, or Vienna, or
Jerusalem, or Bethlehem" Now, when we
come to stand by the death-pillow of those who
are leaving us for the far land do not let us
weep as though we would never see them |
again, but let us, there standing, appoint a
place where we will meet. Where shall it be +?
Shall it be on the banks of the river? No!
The banks are too long Shall it be in the
temple? No, no! There is such host there
ten thousand times ten thousand. Where
shall we meet our loved ones? Let us make
an appointment to meet at the well by the
gate Oh heavenl Sweet heaven Dear
heayenl Heaven, where our good friends are!
Heaven, where Jesus is! Heaven! Heavenl
But while stand here there comes a revela-
tion of feeling when look into your eyes and
know there are souls here dying of thirst, not
the well at the gate. Between
them and the well of heaven there is great
army of sin; and though Christ is ready to
clear way to that well for them, they will
not have his love or intercession
But | am glad to know you may come yet.
The well is here-the well of Heaven Come;
J do not care how feeble you are. Let me
take hold of your arm and steady you up to
the Well-curb. 'Ho, every one that thirsteth,
come" ] would rather win one soul to Christ
this morning than wear the crown of the
worlds dominion DO not let any man go
away and say that did not invite him. Oh,
if you could only Just look at my Lord once
il you could just see him full in the face ay,
il you could only do rs that woman did whom
read about at the beginning of the SER
vices-jast come up behind him and
touch his feet--methnks you would live. In
northern New jersey, one winter, three little
children wandered off from home in a snow
storm. Night came on. Father and mother
said, "Where are the children?" They could
not be found, They started out in haste, and
the news ran to the neighbors, and before
it was said that there were hundreds
of men hunting the mountains for those three
but found them not. After awhile
a man imagined there was a place that had
not been looked at, and he went and saw the
three children. He examined their bodies
He found that the older boy had taken
off his coat and wrapped it around
the younger one, the baby and
then taken Off his vest and put it around the
other one; and there they all died, he prob
ably the first, for he had no coat or vest. oh,
il was a touching scene when that was brought
to light ] was on the ground a little while
after, and it brought the whole scene. to my
mind and | thought to myself CT more
melting scene than that; it is that Jesus our ell
der brother, took OIL the robe of his royalty and
laid aside the last garment OF earthly comfort,
that he might wrap our poor souls from the
blast. Oh, the height, and the depth, and the
length, and the breadth of the love of Christ!